Tag: reflection
Technology and SEL
As a district, we have focused on socioemotional learning (SEL) for quite some time, and there are several new tools that can support this! Technology is a great way to facilitate emotional check-ins and teach students to track their own emotional regulation. For primary grades, Kahoot has partnered with Microsoft Reflect to create SEL lessons. ...
Using Seesaw to Showcase Student Learning During Conferences
Hey, Elementary Teachers. You may not want to hear this yet, but... CONFERENCES ARE COMING! It will be here before you know it and you may be trying to think of some ways to show parents all the great things your students have learned so far since the beginning of the school year. Last year, ...
Seesaw Gets Drafty
Seesaw seems to always be looking for ways to help students show their learning. They are also really good at listening to feedback from teachers, students, and parents when they have ideas for improving an already awesome tool. One of the most often requested feature over the last few years is Drafts. This featuer would ...
Reflect Quickly With Seesaw’s Chrome Extension
Being able to reflect on their learning in Seesaw can be very powerful. Seesaw has some great creative tools like the drawing and highlighter tools, voice or video to explain something, or importing pictures or other files. There is so much that can be done in Seesaw for students to reflect on their work. If ...
Seesaw Makes Some BIG Updates!
Seesaw just got even better at empowering students with its new updates, released on June 18, 2019. They have added tools and enhanced existing ones to unlock more opportunities for students to think creatively and reflect on their learning. To take advantage of the updates, make sure to update the iOS app on iPads or ...
Seesaw “Best Of” Folders
As we near the end of the school year, and your students have been doing some awesome work in Seesaw. One way to highlight best work is to have students place that chosen work into a “Best Of” folder. This is a great way to have your students reflect on all the work they have ...
Seesaw Wow Work: Giving Students Choice and Voice
Learning is not a passive process. Teachers cannot assume they will have each students' attention all the time simply by standing in the front of the room and talking. Having engaging visuals and interactive elements within a lesson can help to keep students interested, but to be an effective teacher, we need to help our ...
Getting Ready For Conferences With Seesaw
Parent/Student/Teacher conferences may be just around the corner. Are you ready? Do you want to unleash your superpowers this conference season? Check out this post from Seesaw to help you save time in preparing for conferences, give students a voice in the process, and engage families throughout the year. Unleash Your Superpowers This Conference Season ...
Tools of Mass Reflection
Check out the latest edition of The New Tools podcast. This fortnight we begin our exploration of the ISTE Standard Empowered Learner by looking at the first indicator: Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes. In particular we discuss tools ...
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